A Llanelli girl is hopeful for tickets to the One Love charity concert on Sunday after a harrowing experience at the Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena.

15-year-old GCSE student Leanne Armitage, who was watching her idol at the concert with her father and best friend, revealed she had been close to the impact zone of the terrorist attack, but was fortunately reunited with her friend after fearing for her safety.

She described the chaos and destruction caused by suicide bomber Salman Abedi, and the panic that set in once the audience worked out what had happened.

"When the bomb went off I was a couple metres away from the explosion," Leanne revealed.

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The One Love fundraising concert, featuring Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Take That, Little Mix and Coldplay, was offered for free to the 14,200 who were at the Manchester Arena on May 22.

But some 25,000 people have applied for those tickets.

Leanne says she had hoped to return to Manchester for "closure" but fears she may be unsuccessful after the email with the reference number was deleted.

“I just want to go pay my respects to everyone that died," she said. "And hopefully then I will then be able to get over it all.”

Leanne with her father inside the Manchester Arena ahead of the Ariana Grande concert. (Image: Llanelli Star)

Looking back to the night of the attack, Leanne said: “It was probably the scariest events of my life.

"When it blew up literally everything went silent, which with thousands of people in the same corridor was quite frightening.

"There was a flash of light and then a slight gust of wind.

"It was only silent for a split second and then everyone around me started screaming.

"I remember just looking at my dad, and he ran up to me and grabbed me.

"I started screaming at him to let me go, as I was screening for my best friend Jess, who I’d met for the first time on the day this happened.

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"I remember being hysterical, trying to do anything I could to find her.

"There were bodies with blood all over them everywhere, and I remember stopping in my tracks to look at a girl who was covered head to toe in blood, she had a massive cut on the side of her head, and she had splats of blood all over her arms and legs and my dad pulled me away from that.

"When we went to the train station to look for Jess we were told to stay away from there as there were dead bodies.

"There was a man getting a bandage from a paramedic.

“My dad told me that we should go look for Jess by one of the other exits as she was closer to them than us.

"I remember walking past the exit and there were three men standing there selling knock-off Ariana Grande merchandise, and I started screaming at them and calling them inconsiderate considering what happened.